Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Let Not the Sun Go Down Upon Your
Wrath.
The Sunset the subiim.st Spectacle in
Nature.
Inc Ia,oriry eoi People Die Between
Sunset and Sunrise
Drive the Growing Dog Of Enmity
Back to His Kennel.
DR.. Taimags Recioes a Remarkable
Faith Cure Which he
Witnessed.
FORGIVENESS BEFORE SHUTDOWN"

sEOhGl Elm FOO DETcnE
BROOKLYN, Oct. 23.--The Rev. r.
Dewitt Talmage, DID,. preached in
the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning
on the subject: forgiveness before
SHUTDOWN" After explaining some
passages concerning Hezekiah, DR..
Talmage gave out the following hymn,
which was sung by the congregation:
"This glorious bore rtvives
Our courage by the way,
While en- III In ex pectation lives
And longs 10 see the day."
The text Of the sermon was from
Epesians iv. rs:
"Lct not the sun go down upon your
wrath"
Or. Talmage said:
What a pillow embroidered of all
colors hath the dying dayp The era
die of clouds from which the sur rises
is beautiful enough, but it is surpassed
by the many-colorcd mausoleum in
which at evening 1t is buried. Sunset
among the mountains! 1t almost
takes ones breath away to recall the
scene. The long shadows stretching
over the plain make the glory Of the
dep arting light, on the tip-top crags
and struck aslant through the foliage,
tho more transpicuous. Saffron and
gold, purple and crimson commingled.
All the castles of cloud in conflagration.
Burning Moscows on the sky. Hang
ing gardens of roses ut their deepest
blush. Banners of vapor, red as if
from carnage, in tie battle Of the ele-
ments. The hunter among the Adiron-
Jacks, and the Swiss villager among
the Alps know what is a sunset among
the mountains. After a storm at sea
he rolling grandeur into which the
sur goes down to battle at nightfall is
something to make weird and splendid
dreams out Of for q lifetime. Alex
ander Smith in his poem compares
The sunset to ''the barren beach of
hell" but this wonderful spectacle Of
nature makes me Link of the FURNISH
ed wall of heaven. Paul in prison
writing my text remembers some of
the gorgeous sunsets among the noun.
tains of
ASIA MINOR,
and how he had often seer the towers
of Damascus blaze in the close of tho
Oriental days. and he flashes out that
memory in the text when he says: '.Let
not the sun 60 down upon your
wrath"
Sublime and all-suggestive duty for
people then and people now. For
giveness before shutdown. He who
never FEELS the throb of indignation is
imbecile. He who can walk among
the iniustices of the world, inflicted
upon himself and others, without flush
of cheek. or flash of eye, or agitation
of nature is either in sympathy with
wrong or semi-idiotic. When AnaDias,
the high priest, ordered the constables
of the court room to smite Paul in the
mouth, Paul fired up and said: "God
shall smite thee, thou whited wall" In
the sentence Immediately before my
text Paul commands the Ephesians:
-sBe We angry and sin not" 1t all
depends on what you are mad at and
how long the feeling lasts whether
anger is right or wrong. Life is full
of e~xasperations. Saul after David,
Succoth after Gideon, Korah after
Moses, the Pasquins after Augustus,
the Pharisees after Christ, and every
one has had his pursuers, and we are
swindled, or belied, or misrepresented,
or prosecuted, or in some way wrong
ed, aud the danger is that healthful in
dignation shall become baleful spite,
and that our feelings settle down into
Il prolonged outpouring of temper dis
pleasing to God and ruinous to our.
selves, and hence the important in
junction of the text: 'Let not the sun
go down upon your wrath"
WHY THAT LIMITATION
to ones angerP Why that period Of
flaming vapor set to punctuate a fam
ing dispe sitiouP What has the sunset
GOT to do with ones r~esentful emotionsp
Was it a hsphazard sentiment written
by Paul without special significance?
No, no.; | think of five reasons why we
should not let the sun set before our
temper SETS.
i. Because twelve hours is long
enough 10 be cross about any wrong
inflicted upon us. Nothing il SO ex-
hausiinS to physical health or mental
faculty as a protractcd indulgence Of
ill-humor. 1t racks the nervous sys-
tenn. Ii bursts the digestion. 1t heats
the blood in brain anu brain and heart
until the whole body is first ~overheated
and then depressed. Beside that it
sours the disposition, turns one aside
from his legitimate work, expends
energies that ought to be better en-
ployed, and does us more harm than
it does our antagonist. Paul gives us
a good allowance of time for legiti-
mate dcnunciation, from six o'clock to
six o'clock, but says:
..Stop therel" Watch the descend